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Attempts to eliminate programmers

India is secular only because it is a Hindu majority country. This is the greatness of Hinduism. If Rama and Krishna are not your Itihasā purushā, your national heroes, you are not a perfect Muslim. - Dr KK Muhammed, suspended for discovering the Ram temple under Babri Mosque.

Why C still matters in 2026

Spotify wanted one Swedish coder so badly, they bought his 300KB masterpiece just to get him. You’ve used his code your whole life. You’ve never heard his name. 🤯 Meet Ludvig Strigeus 🇸🇪 > Swedish software engineer. Born January 1981. Goes by "Ludde" online. > Studied Computer Science at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. > 2001 ~ at age 20, fell in love with old LucasArts adventure games. > Problem: those games only ran on ancient PCs. > So he reverse-engineered them ~ took apart their code, line by line. > Built ScummVM ~ a free tool that runs Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, and 100+ retro games on any modern device. > 2004 ~ did the same with Transport Tycoon Deluxe. > Built OpenTTD ~ a free clone, still played by millions today. > 2005 ~ at age 24, hated how bloated existing BitTorrent apps were. > Built µTorrent. Alone. In under 300 KB ~ smaller than a single high-res photo. > Rapidly became the most popular file-sharing client on Earth ~ over 150 million users at peak. > 2006 ~ Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were starting a music app called Spotify. > They wanted one programmer to build their streaming engine ~ him. > They didn't just recruit him. They bought µTorrent in late 2006 just to get him on the team. > Two months later, they sold µTorrent to BitTorrent Inc. and kept Ludde. > "Spotify bought µTorrent, but what we really wanted was Ludvig Strigeus," former Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn later said. > He led the development of Spotify's core streaming engine ~ the technology that lets songs play instantly with zero buffer. > Lives with a rare muscular disease. Uses a wheelchair. Has done so for years. > Codes from his apartment in Gothenburg. > Won 5 prestigious Swedish honors between 2006 and 2023 ~ including the Polhem Prize, Sweden's highest technology award, and an honorary doctorate from Chalmers. 🚀 > Elected fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2023. > 2026 ~ left Spotify after nearly 2 decades. Joined Nordan AI ~ a Stockholm AI lab building Europe's answer to Palantir. > Never founded a company. Never gave a TED talk. Never sought equity. > No Twitter. No interviews. He built the era of file-sharing. Then built the era of streaming. Now quietly building the era of AI. No fame. No equity. Nothing in his name. Software GOAT. 🐐

Beating hosts China, in Shanghai, in the final…. That’s what’s called a Bull’s-Eye… 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that fit in kilobytes. 50 years later, it runs everything. Linux kernel. Windows. macOS. Every iPhone. Every Android. NASA’s deep space probes. The International Space Station. > Python borrowed from it. > Java borrowed from it. > JavaScript borrowed from it. If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow. He died in 2011. The same week as Steve Jobs. Jobs got the front pages. Ritchie got silence. This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

Morning read dedicated to databrick's lakebase architecture databricks.com/blog/how-lakeb…

Barbara Liskov (Turing Award Winner): "First of all, there were people writing programs in assembler. In assembler you have to use GOTOs. And also compilers didn't do all the kinds of optimizations that they do today. So there was a concern if you didn't have GOTOs, maybe your program wouldn't be efficient enough. And then there were people who used GOTOs and wrote really good code, and they were offended that Dijkstra was saying your code is bad. And Dijkstra was not the most diplomatic person, so he didn't write it in a nice way. You can imagine writing that paper more nicely. But clearly Dijkstra won the day because no GOTO's."

One guy. One Navy ship. One file. 1 trillion databases. He built it alone in 2000. And gave it away forever. 🤯 Meet D. Richard Hipp 🇺🇸 > American developer. Born 1961 in North Carolina. > In 2000, working as a contractor on a US Navy destroyer. > Got frustrated with bulky databases that needed servers and setup. > Built SQLite in his spare time ~ a single-file database engine. > No server. No installation. No configuration. Just one file. > 25 years later, every iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows PC runs SQLite. > Powers Chrome, Firefox, Safari, WhatsApp, iMessage, Skype. > Runs inside Tesla cars and commercial airplanes. 🚀 > Over 1 trillion SQLite databases active worldwide today. > Put the entire codebase in the public domain. Zero royalties forever. > Trillion-dollar companies use his code. He's never charged a cent. > Still maintains it full-time with a tiny team of 3. > Pledged free support and updates until at least 2050. > No VC money. No acquisitions. No spotlight. Just code. Every app on your phone runs his invisible masterpiece. Most engineers build for fame. He built for forever. Database GOAT. 🐐

DMK has been eradicated.

When they speak, we must realize that something right for country is being done. And hasten to achieve it.

An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion tokens last week. That's 33 Wikipedias. One person. Seven days. Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, said out loud: If your $500K engineer isn't spending $250K a year on AI, something's wrong with them. Meta ranks their engineers on how much AI they use. They named it 'Claudeonomics.' Here's what the data actually shows. 7,548 engineers tracked. The ones using the most AI wrote twice as much code. It cost their companies ten times more to do it. Except - most of that code doesn't work. Or gets thrown away a few weeks later. We're burning tokens on things that don't matter. Using electricity just to abandon 90% of the work anyway. Nobody measures what it's for.

The Kerala Story is going to be the India Story if we continue to bury our head in the sand. The TCS horror proves Love Jihad is no longer limited to lone-wolf attacks but has evolved into carefully orchestrated grooming operations run by educated professionals. My views:

Didn't see a single Muslim condemning the TCS conversion jihad But they will be in the first line to prove Kashmir Files or The Kerela story or Dhurandhar as propaganda

Names of TCS Employees Arrested Nida Khan Asif Ansari Tausif Attar Shafi Sheikh Raza Memon Danish Sheikh Shah Rukh Qureshi ⚠️⚠️

Why these talks are timeless! youtu.be/fDGWWpHlzvw

Haris Ali. Top 1% of his medical class. Brother a doctor. Father works in a multinational. Family of landowners. Sprawling bungalow in Saharanpur. Was planning massive fidayeen attacks. Wanted to establish ISIS Caliphate in India. Just arrested by UP ATS. You can't do anything.

Rahul Gandhi openly boasts: 'AI Summit ka naam suna? Kaam kar diya Youth Congress walon ne!' Proudly admitting as if he got his workers to sabotage India's global AI showcase and embarassed India on world stage? Anti-national antics at their peak?

Ever wonder what happens after PostgreSQL picks a query plan? New article: The Execution Engine, where the elegant iterator patterns meet the messy reality of 8KB pages, and why PostgreSQL sometimes chooses a sequential scan even when an index exists. internals-for-interns.com/posts/postgres…

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